Chris Dervishian is NIKSUN´s VP, Operations. He holds multiple degrees in electrical engineering, with a hands-on engineering background. In addition, Chris earned a law degree, with commensurate experience negotiating high-tech transactions. This provides Chris with a balanced perspective to manage both operational and in-house legal matters, as senior counsel. Mr. Dervishian's area of expertise includes electronics and software technologies, intellectual property protection, semiconductor design and fabrication, computer architecture, networking and image processing. Prior to joining NIKSUN, Mr. Dervishian practiced at the law firm of RatnerPrestia, and worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore (now Telcordia) and as a Development Engineer at Moore Products, where he gained significant operations expertise. Mr. Dervishian graduated Cum Laude with a J.D. from the Widener University School of Law. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University and his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Pruthi brings over twenty-five years of expertise in the network security, wireless and applications analysis industry. Dr. Pruthi is the founder of NIKSUN which he has built from a startup to a highly successful global company leading the way in the cyber security, wireless and network monitoring markets.

Dr. Pruthi is widely recognized as the founding father of packet capture, stream to disk, bit vacuum, and other similar technologies which he brought to market in 1997 as NetVCR. He is also widely accepted as one of the leading innovators in the field of cyber security. In 2001 he introduced the NetDetector as the only device in the world capable of multi gigabits per second line rate recording and simultaneous analysis, reconstruction and replay in order to discover the source of security incidents and identification of potential information leakage. This invention led to the creation and growth of the field of network forensics.

11:15 - New Jersey Public Utility´s Response to Super-Storm Sandy
Mr. Marco Valdivia Emergency Management Analyst to the Division of Reliability and Security to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU).

Dr Willinger is a member of the Information and Software Systems Research Center at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, NJ, has been a leading researcher into the self-similar ("fractal") nature of Internet traffic. Walter Willinger is a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, NJ. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore Applied Research from 1986 to 1996. His paper "On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic" is featured in "The Best of the Best - Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research," a 2007 IEEE Communications Society book compiling the most outstanding papers published in the communications and networking field in the last half century.He has focused on investigating the topological structure of the Internet and on developing a theoretical foundation for the study of large-scale communication networks such as the Internet.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1987.

Prof. Ramjee Prasad Director CTIF, Aalborg University
Founding head and program director: The International Research Centre for Telecommunications-Transmission and Radar (IRCTR) at Delft University of Technology (DUT), The Netherlands

10:45Welcome RemarksProf. Ramjee
PrasadDirector CTIF, Aalborg University
Founding head and program director: The International Research Centre for Telecommunications-Transmission and Radar (IRCTR) at Delft University of Technology (DUT), The Netherlands

Ashok Erramilli has been a serial entrepreneur, founding several startups that specialize in developing solutions that apply the latest research to solve real world engineering problems. He has been the Chief Technical Officer of Optessa Inc since 2003, designing an optimization engine that can be applied to a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems with applications in networking and manufacturing. The Optessa scheduling system has been implemented at some of the world's largest manufacturers, including Honda, Ford and Chrysler, delivering significant operational efficiencies.

6:00 - Closing Remarks
Prof. Ramjee PrasadDirector CTIF, Aalborg University
Founding head and program director: The International Research Centre for Telecommunications-Transmission and Radar (IRCTR) at Delft University of Technology (DUT), The Netherlands